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The Babe, The Spy and the Empress of Japan
Canadian Pacific Line’s Empress of Japan (1930) arrived in Yokohama harbor on 2 November 1934…
Walter Lord — He Rescued Titanic
Walter Lord, Titanic historian and the author of A Night to Remember, was born on…
Henry Tingle Wilde—Titanic Hero
Henry Tingle Wilde, Titanic’s chief officer, was born in Liverpool on 21 September 1872. Wilde…
Jack Binns—Wireless Hero
Jack Binns, the first hero of maritime wireless, was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, on…
United States Pays a Tribute
Renowned naval architect William Francis Gibbs died on 6 September 1967. His masterwork, United States…
Queen Mary’s Last Captain
John Treasure Jones, Queen Mary’s last captain (barring some type of unexpected major miracle), entered…
The Last Titanic Survivor
Elizabeth Gladys ‘Millvina’ Dean, the last survivor of the Titanic disaster and the liner’s youngest…
Titanic Senior Wireless Operator Jack Phillips
John George “Jack” Phillips, senior Marconi wireless telegraph operator onboard Titanic, was born in Godalming,…
Cassandre — The Man and the Poster
Cassandre (Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron), the Ukrainian-French artist who created the iconic and widely reproduced poster…
Castro on an Ocean Liner
Capt. Heinrich Lorenz, left, of Norddeutscher Lloyd’s Berlin (ex-Kungsholm of Swedish American Line), proposes a…